

Water efficiency and resilience of fruit production in South Africa
The project “Increasing resilience to water-related risks in the UK fresh fruit and vegetable system”, led by Cranfield University, is funded through the Global Food Security’s ‘Resilience of the UK Food System Programme’. The project interrogates water efficiency over successive droughts at a farm, catchment and national level and how this relates to resilience of fresh fruit and water in South Africa. The project hypothesises that the resilience of an individual producer has improved but the basin-wide, land-water-crop system is more vulnerable to drought shocks and that much can be done to enhance resilience at this wider scale.
Start date October 2016 | End date September 2019
The following blogs report on project findings:
Cape Water Crisis/UK Fruit System
UEA team
Professor Bruce Lankford, UEA Principal Investigator
Partners
Cranfield University (Project Leader)
UEA
NIAB EMR (formerly East Malling Research)
University of Oxford
Funders
BBSRC Global Food Security’s ‘Resilience of the UK Food System Programme’
Contact us
UEA Water Security Research Centre
School of International Development
University of East Anglia,
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1603 592329
Fax: +44 (0) 1603 451999
Centre Director: Dabo Guan | Dabo.Guan@uea.ac.uk
Centre Coordinator: Susan Conlon | watersecurity@uea.ac.uk | Tel: 01603 592863